[macvoiceover] Re: Hi from a new user and yes, a question

  • From: Sam Troia <samtroia@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:01:46 -0500

Hi, Raymond,

This is absolutely the case:  You can only play songs that are in your iTunes 
library.  Likewise for adding songs to playlists.

On Dec 6, 2009, at 4:27 PM, Raymond wrote:

> Hi Ricardo,
> 
> Thanks, that's much easier.
> 
> But, I got not the Add to Playlist option when I used the VO-Shift-M on the 
> item that I want to copy. Just three options, Get Info, Unselect, and Copy. 
> So I thought it must be copy, but that didn't the trick.
> 
> Than I thought maybe it is not possible from a streaming source such as my 
> music server. So I did import just a single cd into the iTunes Library to see 
> if I could copy it to a playlist.
> 
> And that was no problem at all!
> 
> So my conclusion, you can only put songs on a playlist if they are in the 
> iTunes library.
> 
> If I'm wrong, please let me know.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Raymond
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ricardo Walker" <rwalker296@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 5:33 PM
> Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: Hi from a new user and yes, a question
> 
> 
> hello raymond,
> 
> All that work is not needed to put songs in your playlists.
> 
> 1.  Go to the table with your songs and interact with it with VO shift down 
> arrow.  Once you are on the song you wish to add press VO shift M.  This 
> brings up the contest menu.  arrow down to "Add to playlist", which is a sub 
> menu that contains the playlist you have made.  Just press return on the 
> playlist you want to move your music to
> 
> hth
> On Dec 6, 2009, at 9:48 AM, Raymond wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> My name is Raymond Jansen, live in The Netherlands and a Mac and iPhone user
>> since a few weeks now.
>> 
>> so sorry if I ask beginners questions. Before I do ask a question I will try
>> to find the answer on the web.
>> 
>> But lets start with something that keeps me awake...
>> 
>> I'm playing with iTunes on the Mac. I have a music server (Hifidelio) and
>> did setup iTunes to use it as a source, and set it up so that it doesn't
>> copy the songs into the iTunes library. So it streams the music from the
>> server to the Mac using WIFI. That just works great.
>> 
>> Now I'm willing to create a playlist with songs that I would like to have on
>> my iPhone 3GS.
>> 
>> I did create a new playlist, but can't get songs copied (drag and drop) from
>> the numberslist  on to the new playlist. Here are the steps that I take:
>> 
>> 1. Move to the numberslist and start interacting with it by using
>> VO-Shift-Down Arrow.
>> 2. Move to the Name column and down to the song I want to copy.
>> 3. Route mouse to VO cursor with VO-Command-F5.
>> 4. When checking the mouse position with VO-F5 its on the correct name.
>> 5. Mouse down with VO-Command-Shift-Space.
>> 6. Turn off cursor tracking with VO-Shift-F3.
>> 7. Stop interacting with the numberslist with VO-Shift-Up Arrow.
>> 8. Move to the source list and start interacting with it by using
>> VO-Shift-Down Arrow.
>> 9. Move to my new playlist and route the mouse pointer to the VO cursor with
>> VO-Command-F5.
>> 10. When checking the mouse position I hear something about a Frame list, so
>> not the name of the new playlist.
>> 11. Mouse up with VO-Command-Shift-Space.
>> 
>> Result:
>> My playlist is still empty.
>> 
>> Questions:
>> 1. What did I wrong?
>> 2. Why is the mouse pointer not on the playlist but do I hear something
>> about a frame list. I think this is the reason that it doesn't work.
>> 3. How can I copy a whole album and not just single numbers. When I move to
>> the Album colum in the numbers list and try to put the mouse pointer on the
>> name of the album it doesn't work and the mouse pointer stays on the Apple
>> icon.
>> 
>> Please can anybody help me out?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Raymond
>> 
>> 
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